Category: Psychoanalysis
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The Interrupted Dialectic: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Their Tragic Other
In this book Suzanne Gearhart argues that Hegelian speculative philosophy and Freudian psychoanalysis—and ultimately, important currents of contemporary literary theory as well—find their origins and self-justification in the particular interpretation each gives to tragedy. Gearhart shows not only what draws philosophers and psychoanalysts to tragedy—especially to Antigone, Oedipus, and Hamlet—but also why tragedy both yields…
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Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation
Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals— understood as ideological— with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the political. Fanon’s work gives both a psychological explanation of the…
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Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History: The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud
What does it mean to think of Western Art music – and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory – as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that tradition? And how is the writing of the history (or histories) of that tradition shaped by men and masculinities? This book seeks…
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(Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Žižek, and Neuroscience
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood―even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Žižek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches…
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‘Psychoanalysis in the Wake’ by Stephen Frosh | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
Psychoanalysis has a long history of engagement with racism, often through theorising racism’s sources. It has nevertheless been criticised for its neglect of Black experience and its narrowness in relating to the social realities of racism as lived in the wider Black community. Very recently, there have been attempts by psychoanalytic institutes and practitioners to…
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Translating Freud
This book describes the problems that become apparent when translating Freud’s subtle thought and supple wording and examines the way in which these dilemmas are affected by the language―French, Spanish, and English―into which the work is translated. The authors are internationally distinguished experts in Freud and language, most of whom have taught Freud’s work in…
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Sigmund Freud: An Introduction
Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from the beginning of his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud’s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today. Elegantly…
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The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point…
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Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freud’s Writings
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud’s work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud’s theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification. Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background information,…
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The Wagnerian Sublime: Four Lacanian Readings of Classic Operas
In four compelling essays on classic opera, Slavoj Žižek examines how certain structural motifs repeatedly dominate the narratives by putting desire, as pure and captivating as possible, into music and on stage. Wagner’s heroes, for instance, suffer from unbearable longing (Parsifal), an excessive yearning for the absolute (The Flying Dutchman), a deadly surplus of pure…
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Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society
This collection introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. Lacanian Theory of Discourse provides an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of subjectivity, producing specific attitudes and behaviors as well as significant social effects. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: Five Lectures
Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse’s lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism. Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia excavates the psychic roots of the current crisis…
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On Freud
Elvio Fachinelli was one of the most original and controversial Italian psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. He viewed psychoanalytic theory as inextricably linked to the concrete experience of everyday reality and as a crucial compass for understanding the social and political turmoil of his era. This compact volume collects Fachinelli’s writing on Freud, offering readers…
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The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985
Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and equally precipitous decline of his theories on human behaviour continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud’s birth, popular magazines reported that this “Darwin of the Mind” had fathered modern psychiatry, psychology, child raising, education, and sexual attitudes.…
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Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917
Examines the medical, moral, and social conditions prevailing at the time in order to understand why America embraced Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. See also Volume 2: The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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